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Pavlohrad Jewish Family Stories
Pavlohrad Jewish Family Stories
Below are stories submitted by contributors with ancestors from Pavlohrad. If you have stories, documents, or photographs from your ancestors in Pavlohrad, please contact tgilinsky@jewishgen.org to have them included in this section.
The Shleimowitz Family
The Shleimowitz Family
The Shleimowitz family lived on the corner of Kharkovskaya Ulitze and Yevreyska Ulitze, where the patriarch, Shleime Hymowitz Shleimowitz owned a factory. Shleime was married to Tanya Yisraelovna, and they had nine children. Tragically, Shleime and Tanya, along with two of their children, were murdered by the Bolsheviks during the pogroms of 1918-1919 in Pavlograd. Five of the surviving seven children fled Pavlograd in 1923, headed for the United States where they were turned away at Ellis Island and deported back to Southampton, UK. The five siblings were eventually able to immigrate to South Africa where they were adopted by an uncle. The two eldest siblings, Nahum and Teube, stayed behind in Pavlograd but were never heard from again. What happened to them remains a mystery.
Photo of the Schleimovich family, Pavlohrad, circa 1913
DOC (4).PDFThis article was published in "The Friend", a newspaper published in Bloemfontein, South Africa. The exact date of the article is unknown, however the year is 1929. The publication explains the fate of the Shleimowitz parents and the journey that five of the surviving children took from Pavlohrad to South Africa. The name Shleimowitz was changed to "Solomon" in South Africa.
The Rodiansky Family
The Rodiansky Family
Esther Rodiansky was born in Pavlohrad. Her mother died when Esther was about 16 years old. Her father, Aaron (a tailor) remarried and the new wife was not very kind to Esther. Esther married Abraham Karpovsky (Carp) who was about 12 years her senior. Esther and Abraham came to America in 1913. Abraham said that he came from Ekaterinaslav which is the region of the Russian Empire containing Pavlohrad. Abraham's sister, Polina Zhemchuzhina (born Perl Karpovskya), was the wife of Molotov. At one point Polina was caught by Stalin, speaking Hebrew to Golda Meir. Stalin, because of his attitude towards Jewish people, had her thrown in the Gulag in Siberia. Molotov was understandably very upset about this. On the day of the funeral for Stalin, Beria had Polina released from the Gulag. Abraham Carp died in 1921 in Bridgeport Connecticut where he and Esther lived. Esther married Abraham Zlatkin in 1927.
The Davidov Family
The Davidov Family
Chaim Davidov was married to Esther Baskin. They had a daughter, Rachel Davidova, who was later was called Rhea. There were other Davidov children but their names are unknown. It is assumed that Rhea's siblings were all killed in the Holocaust. Rhea's husband, Daniel Zeltzer (also her cousin), immigrated from Belarus to Rochester, New York first. Rhea left Pavlohrad in 1917, at the age of 18. She took the train across Russia and China and boarded a Japanese ship in Japan and landed in Seattle, and then took a train to Rochester, to join her husband.
Photo of Rachel (Rhea) Davidova taken in Pavlohrad.
Rhea and her husband Daniel Zeltzer.
Postcards sent to Rhea Zeltzer by her family in Pavlohrad
Davidov family photos and postcards contributed by BJ Wahl.
The Kis Family
The Kis Family
Leyser Kis and his younger brother
Leyser Kis and his younger brother
Contributed by Ilya Ekushevskii
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